Has anyone found a way to reduce the postage cost of an eBay purchase to a manageable and sensible price???

I wanted to buy a set of four Kadee 58 couplers.  I found the item on eBay, at US$4.05.  But the cost of postage to the UK, WITHOUT customs, and in the UK the Post Office charges $10 for every inspection, is $32.80.  This makes a total cost of $46.85.  I am not buying! (eBay Link).

My previous blog entry described the basic geometry of my recently completed helix, and the process I used to construct the roadbed. That blog ended with a collection of disassembled half-circles of the helix, ready to begin final assembly. This entry will discuss the process I used to actually put that all together.

What could be more fun to work on during the Thanksgiving Holiday than a Christmas scene, complete with railroad station, church, Christmas tree salesman and a little town, complete with gazebo and town Christmas tree? For a taste of what I mean, check out my last post. That was the former layout that had to be scrapped. But I'm salvaging all that stuff for this new module.

To All: It has been a long day at Paul's Pulpwood siding on the First Coast RR and Paul wants to go home. Time to shut out the lights and close up shop. Photo by Elvin Howland. Yours Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout.

In my original Lighting Thread, Work continues on the BNML - Lighting, I declared "The valance is done!" on January 16th 2016. (Almost a full year ago!)

Apparently this was a falsehood, an untruth.     ...ok...     I lied.

I had forgotten ignored the fact that I still needed to do the lighting in my office area. Now that I am ready to begin scenery in this area, I really have to finish it first.

Model railroaders of Canfield war vet museum update part 1

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PsB--Tblhhk

Photos of the first part of my future (or current I guess now) layout. It is microengineering and atlas track on a foam bed and is 1'x7'

Let's start a new Holiday tradition here on MRH show your holiday or tree set ups here on this thread!

One of the disadvantages of building an HO multi-deck layout in a smaller space is that you end up with a lot of attendant support track. On my 14' x 20' layout I have a staging yard that spans the long side of the layout and 4 separate helices. 

When I'm operating solo and switching in the yard, this support track works to my favor because it dramatically increases the length of the mainline continuous loop. If I put a train on the mainline and let it circle at prototype speeds, it passes by only once every 15 to 20 minutes of actual time. 

I need help in a SIMPLE way to wire the EB-1 circuit breakers into my layout. I am using CVP system and currently have the layout split into 2 districts. I now want to split each district into 3 additional sub districts. I have the boards, looked at the instructions and am confused as how to wire them into the layout the instructions only show how to wire one board into the track, but what about the additional two.